Latest Builds: Zebra 2.8 *beta*

[gentleclockdivider]

It would be garbled mess when applied on sum of polyphonic voices, not very useful. Might as well use white noise instead.

Noppes , it would just function as a wave-shaper stereo effect ;like a gazillion other effects out there , and repro -1

Repro-1 is monophonic. Waveshapers mostly (to me) sound like crap on polyphonic material.

As it is now , the (new ) waveshaper in zebra 2.8 is applied to each voice = thus polyphonically /polyphonic material
If it would be inserted in the master effects , it would be applied to the stereo sum .
Like all other vst effects .

[EvilDragon]

Yes - and that's exactly what I was waying that would IMHO sound like crap, most of the time - wavefolder on a sum of polyphonic voices.

[david.beholder]

What was url of build before 2.8 beta update? I want to get back until UI loading time is fixed.

Also few notes on Dot8 skin:
* in matrix active modules are Grey and inactive are orange
* modules have new 3d look but mixers and effects has old one - flat (annoying)

Newer version of default skin:
* preset browser has bigger font, so folder structure fits less than before
* double click instead of expanding folder is shifting browser root level - differs from previous behavior

[Theturbinman]

What was url of build before 2.8 beta update? I want to get back until UI loading time is fixed.

+1 !!

[zvenx]

http://www.u-he.com/cms/zebra

Right hand side.
Where all final releases are.

their product page, rhs.
rsp

[tasmaniandevil]

You might have to do a fresh install eventually, if you want to downgrade. I am not sure if everything would work correctly if you simply install the current 2.7.2 release version over the newer 2.8 beta version, mainly because of the new browser and the changes in the skins/themes.
So it's best to remove the Zebra2.data folder before downgrading (but remember to not accidentally throw away your presets, which are in the data folder).

[Theturbinman]

You might have to do a fresh install eventually, if you want to downgrade. I am not sure if everything would work correctly if you simply install the current 2.7.2 release version over the newer 2.8 beta version, mainly because of the new browser and the changes in the skins/themes.
So it's best to remove the Zebra2.data folder before downgrading (but remember to not accidentally throw away your presets, which are in the data folder).

[Urs]

What was url of build before 2.8 beta update? I want to get back until UI loading time is fixed.

We might have to wait for Windows Defender to be fixed, so that if our data folder is excluded, the scan time doesn't take even longer. It looks like this isn't anything we can fix. We can certainly find a workaround, but that might entail a reduced feature set on Windows, e.g. no automatic updates.

[Theturbinman]

What was url of build before 2.8 beta update? I want to get back until UI loading time is fixed.

We might have to wait for Windows Defender to be fixed, so that if our data folder is excluded, the scan time doesn't take even longer. It looks like this isn't anything we can fix. We can certainly find a workaround, but that might entail a reduced feature set on Windows, e.g. no automatic updates.

There is no way to fix the 30 second to 2 minute wait times when opening Zebra?

[zvenx]

They are working on it.
Rsp

[karrikuh]

What was url of build before 2.8 beta update? I want to get back until UI loading time is fixed.

We might have to wait for Windows Defender to be fixed, so that if our data folder is excluded, the scan time doesn't take even longer. It looks like this isn't anything we can fix. We can certainly find a workaround, but that might entail a reduced feature set on Windows, e.g. no automatic updates.

I want to stress again that at least in my case, Windows 10 security center is completely disabled (the service) and yet, the start-up time is huge (see my previous post)

[Theturbinman]

What was url of build before 2.8 beta update? I want to get back until UI loading time is fixed.

We might have to wait for Windows Defender to be fixed, so that if our data folder is excluded, the scan time doesn't take even longer. It looks like this isn't anything we can fix. We can certainly find a workaround, but that might entail a reduced feature set on Windows, e.g. no automatic updates.

I want to stress again that at least in my case, Windows 10 security center is completely disabled (the service) and yet, the start-up time is huge (see my previous post)

+1 ! I am getting 4 minute load times when opening zebra before any presets are displayed.

[fforet]

+1 ! I am getting 4 minute load times when opening zebra before any presets are displayed.

deleting all additional themes in u-he\Zebra2.data\Support\Themes folder (so that it contains only the two folders "DarkEight" and "Unempty Dark Horse") did resolve this problem for me

[Funkybot's Evil Twin]

I downloaded every patch in the Patch Library, and ended up with around 10k presets in the end. Now, opening the 2.8 browser takes a few seconds to refresh but nothing unreasonable. Note: I had no extra skins, and don't use Windows Defender. This is with Windows 10 Home x64 with updates turned on and Bitdefender as my AV software. Presets are on a SATA drive, OS on a SSD. Not sure why results seem all over the place with this but my experience has been good. Never had a prior version of Zebra either.

[karrikuh]

I downloaded every patch in the Patch Library, and ended up with around 10k presets in the end. Now, opening the 2.8 browser takes a few seconds to refresh but nothing unreasonable. Note: I had no extra skins, and don't use Windows Defender. This is with Windows 10 Home x64 with updates turned on and Bitdefender as my AV software. Presets are on a SATA drive, OS on a SSD. Not sure why results seem all over the place with this but my experience has been good. Never had a prior version of Zebra either.

It takes "just" a few seconds for me, too. I would be totally fine with this if it applied e.g. only to the first time I open the UI of a new Zebra instance. In practice however, I constantly switch between Zebra UI and the UI of various post-processing effects. I think you can imagine having this kind of delay on every switch quickly turns into a serious work-flow killer.

Maybe also worth noting: for me, the delay happens not only when entering the preset browser, but when opening the UI in general.